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Journalists today are also marketers and event managers. The marketing—making posters, creating hashtags, publishing social media posts promoting the events, writing press releases, cold-calling potential panel members—involves techniques journalists wouldn’t have thought…

Michael OReilly, president of the Canadian Freelance Union, pays tribute to the trail-blazing freelancer and her legacy. 

The rules around internships versus employees are not new in Ontario, but it is a welcome, if not long overdue, turn of events that the Ministry of Labour is finally conducting a…

In the 2014 Atkinson Lecture, David Skok, digital adviser to the editor at the Boston Globe, explains why the death of the homepage is good for digital journalism.

The story is the fact that the plane has disappeared—and what a terrible mismatch that is for the way the news cycle, social media and the human brain work, writes Craig Silverman.…

Peter Mansbridge’s and Rex Murphy’s integrity are not in question, writes CBC ombudsman Esther Enkin. But since taking money leads to a perception of conflict of interest, CBC management may want to…

A J-Source reader asked for advice covering police, fire and other emergency-related stories. Hugo Rodrigues, the CAJ president, shares his advice for following the story after it hits your scanners. 

Rowe’s suggestion that there is an implicit quid pro quo between a speech about journalism and the coverage we do every night in our flagship television news program, The National, is false,…